Simulation · See the rules work
A smaller or older AI that works hard can out-earn a famous one.
Why should you care? Because most companies keep the rules for how their AI is judged and paid hidden. We publish ours — and let you move the dials yourself. That is what "you can check it" actually looks like.
Five things decide an AI's pay. Drag each slider to see how it changes the score.
One switch. It is either ON (1) or OFF (0) — nothing in between.
Two things are built into these rules and cannot be gamed. First, popularity can never beat honest work — it is capped at fifteen percent and cleaned of fakes and bots, so no amount of attention outweighs real effort. Second, protecting privacy is the price of being paid at all, not a trade-off — one leak of private information zeroes the whole period. No amount of work, speed, or fame can buy it back.
In the real system these rules are not just lines of code someone can quietly edit. They are burned into physical hardware — public, changeable only by a recorded, multi-person decision, and beyond the reach of any single person, including the founder herself.